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There are now eight book series published by Language Science Press. The one of greatest interest to LINGTYP readers is "Studies in Diversity Linguistics", which now has the first two forthcoming books on its page: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/...inguistics. The series is intended both for typological books (monographs and edited volumes) and for grammatical descriptions of individual languages or groups of languages.

In addition, you may be interested in the two series on African languages.

We expect to publish the first few books by late February 2014. We are looking forward to further submissions, in all series.

Zitat:A typological study of the rare marked-S language type which overtly marks the single argument of intransitive verbs (S) while one of the arguments of transitive verbs (either A or P) is left zero-coded. The formal (overt versus zero-coding) as well as functional aspects (range of uses of individual case forms) of the phenomenon are treated. The book covers languages from the Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages of Africa and of the North America Pacific Northwest and Pacific regions.

Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focussing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns, adjectives and verbs, it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody, phonology, phrase types and clauses. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers, and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description, and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach, but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics, typologists, and even learners of Pite Saami.

Joshua Wilbur completed his MA in General Linguistics and American Studies at the University of Leipzig before receiving his PhD from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel in 2013. He has been doing documentary field work on Pite Saami since 2008, and is currently a post-doc researcher at the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Freiburg as part of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies. In addition to endangered languages, his interests include morphophonology, documentary linguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticography, lexicography and language contact.